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My Mother Calls Her a Head-Case Convict

By Kaya Dierks

But here I am anyway, in the CVS on Perkins and Sixteenth, allowing her to turn me criminal. Like this.…

AU: the night your husband proposed

By Vic Nogay

You’re standing with toes far back from the edge, not prepared for a swim that night in Otsego when he…

Fast Flash Challenge Contest Winners & Shortlisted writers

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1st: Place: Party in the O.R. by Lannie Stabile Runner-Up: Through the Window by Susan Wigmore Runner-Up: Be Prepared by…

A THOUSAND MILES AWAY

By Linda Niehoff

We were always driving and once in the night in the dark after hours and hours, days even of only…

Anthology II Contest Winners

By Fractured Lit
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Caterpillar Killer by Shastri Akella Dirty Shirley by Shannon Bowring Giving Up by Catherine Cade Picking Up Stones by Brad…

Feeding on the Thamirabarani Metro

By M. L. Krishnan

Super fast and super premium. We wished that were true about the greyscale beat of our lives. Its expectations a…

Thirty Years After Graduation, I Spy You in Aisle Five   

By Sarah Freligh

I’d have bet prison, fifteen to life for offing your ex while he slept next to the younger blonde who’d…

The Hollowing of Her Bones

By Fractured Lit
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Faye says she doesn’t believe in coincidence, but the day she burns the last of the cows, two women hurl…

Ghost Girl Ballet

By Chelsea Stickle

After Edgar Degas’ “Dance Rehearsal, 1874” People say ballet theaters are haunted by the dancers who died tragically young, but…

Like Soap

By Slawka G. Scarso

When we were fourteen, Tessa, Gina, and I used to laugh at Mrs. Meade, our history teacher, who always came…

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